Author's Note: Edit: formatting fixed.

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Book 2 C 32 A Wife's Determination

Stunned, I look at the message, I was not even thinking about it and simply teleported like it was second nature to me. Before this, we had merged and teleported about, then split up, walked the short distances and then decided to come here, as I think back on how I gained this new skill.

“That is great Scott, it worked!”, Aerleras says in delight and hugs me.

“I was not even thinking and just did it,”, I say to her in wonder.”That means the others should be able to do it too”.

We had been using teleport like crazy in battle. Then also to move around for it's ease of use saving us time. I take my helmet off and scratch my head thinking this over trying to let it fully sink in, putting my helmet into inventory. I am finding myself thinking on how easy I did it, there was not doubt in my mind at the time, I just closed my eyes, let the mana flow and felt the location I wanted to be at. It all happened so fast.

Quickly we tell Julie, Cindy and Ki'Diera the good news and they are proud of me and begin to try it on their own. Cindy appears next to me.

“Wow it was easy, it was there the whole time!”, Cindy looks about in amazement, “I did not even have to give it much thought”.

We hear flapping of wings and look up, a huge shape is barreling at us and passes overhead. It is Ki'Diera riding her Griffin as they land close by. She is all smiles and her hair is a mess. Closing her eyes, she disappears and appears next to me in an instant.

“It is true, it was not hard!”, Ki'Diera laughs.

Julie? I ask in my head.

Umm Scott I may have screwed up, Help!

I quickly look thru her eyes and see where she is. She is back home, her old home. She is surrounded by a pack of Demonic Hounds striking her area mana barrier. Her thoughts are jumbled and unable to focus to teleport out. The front of the house is gone, torn away.

I equip my sword and mana blaster. Set the mana blaster to electrical, visualize her home, having been there several times now and teleport there. Mana enhancing the sword, I begin to fire at the gathered hounds stunning them each with the mana blaster, then walk and decapitate them with the sword. I find Julie huddled on the ground, her mana barrier still up, crying.

“Kitten I am here,”, I say to her softly.

She looks up at me with teary eyes, after hearing my voice, the mana barrier fades and she jumps up rushing to grab onto me, holding me tightly. “I am sorry Scott, I do not know why I wanted to come here”. She sobs.

“It is ok kitten, you are safe now.”, I say, stroking her head lightly.

“I just wanted to learn teleportation too, and this was the first place that came to mind, then I was surrounded and my mind went blank and I could not think of another place to go back to.”, she cries.

“Let's go to our new home, the one in the Keep ok?” I say to her softly trying to calm her down.

She pulls away and nods tears still flowing lightly. She closes her eyes and disappears. I then do the same and teleport to our room in the Keep. Julie is standing there waiting for me. I let the others know she is ok and back safe.

I walk over to her, take her into my arms and hold her tightly to me.”I love you Julie”, is all I say to her as she grabs onto me tightly. Aerleras, Cindy, and Ki'Diera appear in the room with us, all teleported on their own.

“This is so much fun,” Cindy exclaims.

“Indeed it is, I can go anywhere now instantly, I feel a little overwhelmed by it”, Ki'Diera says in amazement.

“As Julie demonstrated just now, we also need to be careful, there are still dangers out there.” I say to them quickly.

Julie back away from me, “I am ok now”. She smiles weakly to me, Aerleras goes to Julie and takes her hand in hers.

“So, one skill down and a lot more to go.”, Cindy smiles.

“To increase the skill we just have to use it?”, Ki'Diera asks.

“Yes, it is thru constant use that we gain knowledge of the skill and increase our ability with it,”, Cindy says to her.

“Then I will be off!”, Ki'Diera says and disappears from sight.

Curious what Ki'Diera is up to, I focus on her and see thru her eyes and my heart almost stops.

Princess what are you doing?

Training my warrior.

Princess that is reckless.

One can not learn unless, they push themselves.

I teleport to her location right away, mana blaster and sword ready. Ki'Diera is facing off against a pack of Demonic Hounds, we are on the outer edge of the 5 km zone, where we left off last.

Cindy, Julie and Aerleras also teleport in. Julie is looking better, with us all around her, her confidence is coming back.

This is quite reckless Sister.

I agree, trying to do this alone is reckless, at least let us join in.

I ...I can assist by keeping larger groups away for you.

Sigh you guys, really?

Ignoring me, Cindy, Aerleras and Ki'Diera begin working on the Hounds while Julie keeps an eyes on them, teleporting to whomever has a dangerous amount of Hounds around them, using her mana barrier to protect them.

I stay back and watch them nervously as each teleports in and out of packs killing the Hounds in quick attacks. We are close enough in levels to the Hounds that they are not much trouble anymore now, as the girls make quick work of them.

I watch Cindy as she teleports into a group and uses her fiery aura, flame wall and dual cone of fire on a pack, incinerating the bunch in the blink of an eye. Aerleras teleports, strikes then dances around them gracefully avoiding claw strikes and bites, telelports quickly and strikes again from the other side, killing one after the other.

Ki'Diera is a killing machine, teleporting close to strike the neck of one hound after the other in quick succession decapitating each beast in a single strike with her sword.

In the matter of minutes, the area is cleared of all hounds and bodies begin to shimmer and disappear. All four girls appear next to me smiling and panting.

“Shall we clear the next zone?” Ki'Diera asks, her eyes full of battle lust.

The other three girls smiling, nod then look to me.

Sighing, I give in, “Fine lets get to work.”

For the rest of the day till dusk, we start a mass execution of the hounds. A few times Julie had to join in and throw up her barrier to assist, but other than that she merely watched our backs, calling off incoming to keep us alert. We cleared 14 more Grids from the southern quadrant. 140 sections in all, as the sun was beginning to set. Julie had a strange look on her face at the end of the day.

“Kitten is everything ok?”, I ask her, the other girls notice too and gather round.

With a sad voice and her head down, she whispers quietly, almost to the point you can not hear,”I feel so useless”.

“How can you say that? You keep us alive!”, I say to her in disbelief at her words.

“That is not true, even if you die, you will come back, as long as one of us lives right?”, she now says looking up, her eyes have fire in them.

“Julie what is it you want to do?”, asks Ki'Diera stepping forward to Julie and looking her in the eyes with determination.

“I ..I want to be of help, I want to do what you do and learn the sword”, says Julie at first hesitantly, then with determination and conviction, her voice growing stronger with each word.

“Then do so and let me teach you”, Ki'Diera says to Julie with a smile.

Julie stares at Ki'Diera then smiles and nods as a tear comes from the corner of her eye. Julie then rushes forward and hugs Ki'Diera,”Thank you Sister!”

It turns into a group hug in the end, all of us hugging Julie and all smiling. We then teleport to the keep, directly to the showers and clean up. Then as a family we walk to the Cafeteria to grab dinner. We see Montgomery sitting at a table.

“Montgomery, you can check off Grids 9 thru 23 in the southern Quadrant, as clear”, I say to him

“Chief?”, He asks looking at me with uncertainty.

“My Wives decided to train today,”, I say as my wives all smile to him. Then we head to the King's table to eat our dinner. I was feeling proud of all of them right now. Each was wanting to be useful in their own way and showed me that each can handle themselves out there. I am also feeling that Julie's confidence will rise with the sword training and given time she will be among the other girls slashing and killing the beast with the best of them.

After dinner we spend time talking to others mingling and drinking. It is a festive a atmosphere tonight. One of the main drinks tonight was a fruit juice squeezed by the Elves, but had a hint of alcohol in it. Everyone was partaking in it not holding back and a few even fell asleep at a table, drunk. Laughter, singing, dancing, and some serious kissing in some cases were all taking place in here.

The people waiting in line were getting restless and I decided to move the party outside, so all could enjoy the atmosphere. Under the flood lights, we had music playing from the boom box with dance music of 2010. People were going wild dancing and laughing, enjoying themselves. The Ny'Har'en at first watched on but eventually too, jumped in. My wives decided a little alcohol would not hurt, and drank as well.

It took no time and Ki'Diera' face was flushed and grinning. We all danced to the music well into the night. As it was getting late all five of us were feeling a little too good and decided to call it a night. We merge as one, as Ki'Diera is really drunk, and her sense of direction is gone. Inside the Elven home, we split up and head for bed, but the night did not stop there. The Alcohol made my wives horny, and to be honest I was too. I could feel it coming from them and let myself go with the lust building up inside.

Over the next few hours I enjoyed my wives in every way. Satisfied we all went to sleep in one heap of bodies, all snuggled against one another smiling. Morning came too quickly for us and we decided to sleep in. Julie awakens first and pulls out a Jet Injector and injects first herself, then Cindy then me waking us up. She had gotten it from Doc Snow, and now carries it with her to inject us as needed. The affect from the injector was lasting longer, as we were slowly adapting to Aerleras.

I kiss each of my wives, greeting them with a big smile. Last night was amazing, and I was feeling great. We all get dressed and head downstairs, to see Ariannona and Welissa waiting for us already. Welissa blushes hard when she sees me and looks away.

EH? I am dressed this morning. I think to myself wondering if she still remembered yesterday.

“(Good Morning you Majesties, you my King, are truly the King of the night!)”, says Ariannona greeting us with a deep bow.

“(King of the Night?)”, I ask confused walking down the stairs with my wives behind me.

“(Yes indeed your Majesty)”, Ariannona says with a mischievous smile straightening from the bow, “(All in the village bore witness to the four hours of constant sounds of pleasure coming from this dwelling last night.)” she laughs.

I look to Welissa who took a quick peek at me, sees I am looking at her and nearly faints, blushing a deep deep red.

With no regrets or excuses, “(I love my wives, there is nothing wrong with that.)”, I say to Ariannona smiling.

“(Little one, you seem distant today, are you thinking of becoming a wife to the King?)”, Ariannona teases Welissa.

As if caught with her hand in the cookie jar, Welissa loses all color in her face, her eyes grow huge and her breathing stops. Then she bursts from the room, running away at her fastest speed.

Shaking her head Ariannona looks back to me. “(Breakfast is waiting your Majesty, we will come back by later to gather the dishes then)”, Ariannona bows once more and then too, leaves.

“What was that about?”, asks Julie looking at me with wondering eyes,

“Nothing, Ariannona is teasing Welissa this morning, sigh”, I say to her dismissing the whole conversation from before. I sit down at the table and begin to eat my breakfast, having slept in the Elven dwelling these past few days has left me feeling more relaxed and refreshed each morning, even the wives seems livelier.

“Julie after breakfast, we will start on your training,”, Ki'Diera says to her, stretching in place, first her legs then her arms. She then sits down to eat, then stops,” Julie?”

“Yes? Sorry I was thinking a bit...........”, Julie replies as if in deep thought.”Training right..sword training”.

“Is something the matter Kitten?”, I ask seeing her expression.

“No, nothing is the matter, it is just.....well, I never held a sword before, I am going to look like a fool aren't I?”, Julie asks looking slightly embarrassed.

“You will do fine, everyone has to start somewhere right?”, I say then ask her smiling.

She smiles weakly and nods still in thought, picking at the breakfast before her.

We talk about a few more things, later after everyone has done their tasks we wold all gather and meet in Grid 24 Sector 10 and move to Grid 25 and begin clearing again. I need to meet with Montgomery and go over more details on the west clearing. Also check with Alexander on a few things. Cindy is meeting her apprentices and doing some training with them, while Aerleras wants to join Ki'Diera and Julie in practice.

After we complete our breakfast and plans we all teleport separately to our destinations giving each other kisses bye, before leaving. I watch Ki'Diera, Aerleras and Julie leave, leaving me with Cindy alone.

“Think she will be ok,” I ask, not really looking for an answer.

“Julie is far stronger than she looks, Tiger.”, Cindy smiles and gives me a hug. “You really worry about us way too much you know, it is kind of cute, but at the same time can be suffocating, you need to relax and trust in us Tiger”.

“I know, you are right honey”, I say returning the hug, she feels so soft and good.

“Who knows, she may surprise us all, right?”, Cindy says and gets on her tip toes to kiss me.” I am off Tiger, see you later!”. With that she vanishes.

I teleport to the Super Solder training area, and find Montgomery there with Halloway.

“Just in time Chief,”, Montgomery says to me seeing me appear.

“What's up Montgomery?” I ask him.

“Seems we got a transmission a bit ago,” Says Montgomery with a grim expression.” we are still trying to re-establish communications, the details were too vague, nothing to let us pinpoint their location.”

“Why the look,” I ask him.

“It seems they are under attack. Screams of people getting hurt or dying could be heard in the back ground,” he says, his face looked pained by the new.

“I know it is hard, but we will not be able to save everyone Montgomery. We save who we can when the opportunity presents itself.” I say to him with understanding. I too feel the pain of knowing there are people out there, fighting and struggling, holding onto hope to live another day, only to be lost.

“We got them back! We got them!!”, Foster yells from the communication tent.

We all run towards the tent, and hear Sgt Raymond, “what is your location, over!”.

“So many of them, killing everyone......we are in.........”, the transmission goes dead once more. It was a male voice, it sounded panic'ed.

“What a fucking idiot, all he has to do is say where the fuck they are.” Sgt Raymond says slamming his headphones down on the table in frustration and sitting back into his chair.

“Mayday, mayday, this Erica Wells, transmitting from the State College in Grand Junction Colorado. If anyone can hear us we are in desperate need of help. We are being overrun by monsters. Can you hear us, over?” The female voice says urgently.

“This is Kopeke calling Grand Junction we hear you, stand by.” says Sanchez quickly, then looks up to me. “Chief that is a little over 4 to 5 hours by vehicle from there.” He says looking to Montgomery and me.

“Tell them help will be there shortly, I have been to Grand Junction a few times” I say to him.”Keep them on the radio for now and find out how many survivors are left, assure them that help is on the way.” I say to him.

“Chief you can't go alone, it is too dangerous, you do not even know what they are fighting.” Montgomery says objecting knowing what I was planning to do.

“I can get in and out in no time if it gets too hard,”, I say to him, reassuring him and the rest who have worry on their faces.

“Alright Chief, like you always tell us, safety first right?”, Montgomery says to me.

“I will not endanger my wives, of that you can be assured,”, I say to him and he looks satisfied with that.

“If your wives are going then I feel better then,” he says to me with a smile.

My loves, I need you now, come quickly!

Julie, Ki'Diera, Cindy and Aerleras all show up instantly. The details of the plan have already been shared with them and we merge into one. We close our eyes and focus on an Inn in Grand Junction I always stay at when I visited the area there in the past. It is not far from Mt Garfield I go to, to hike over a weekend each year in the summer. It is secluded and out of the way, not many go there.

We ready my mana blaster and Ki'Diera's sword, not knowing what we are going to encounter. We teleport and arrive at the location in mind in Grand Junction. We look around and get our bearings, I vaguely know where the State College is. We begin to run at high speed towards the general location.

Then we see some figures ahead pushing shopping carts of food and quickly hide behind an abandoned vehicle and go stealth mode. We see four of them, short in height, but their physique is stocky and muscular. They are wearing metal armor that has a slight glow to it, one has a Hammer at is side, not a normal one, but one that is used to cause great pain and damage to others and a large rectangular shield on his back. Another has two handed double bladed Battle Axe strapped to his back. Each of them have long beards, braided and parted hanging loosely from their chins. One has a fiery orange look to his longhair and beard, while another is pure white, the other two are darker looking, verging on black.

The white bearded one is talking to the others as each of them is listening to him. His voice carries and has the sound of authority to it. The shopping carts are full of canned and boxes of foods. Using invisibility we get closer and I inspect them:

Creature!NPC Dwarf level 205

Sigh we found the Dwarves..............and it looks like they are in conflict with the Humans here.